Monday, January 15, 2007

80s

The topic for this week's Illustration Friday is the "80s". Like, totally!I had a lot of fun thinking about things that reminded me of the Eighties tonight....things like; parachute pants, Aqua Net'd bangs, clove cigarettes, izods, burmuda shorts and topsiders, early Madonna, rockin' with the likes of Van Halen or Nightranger, Olivia Newton-John (the "Let's get Physical" era) baggy socks and LA Gear sneakers and dolphin shorts!And just how do I know SOOOO MUCH about the "80s"?Well, youngin's...I was, like totally, there.

Yes, like, that does resemble a Mullet! (However, I believe we called that a "tri-level" hairstyle back then)Egads!!

80s hairstyles rule! Even though they kind of made people look older than they really were. I look at the 80s yearbooks from my high school and I can't tell the kids in there are high school students @_@

thanks everyone! It was fun sketching these and fun to revisit my yearbook too, for that matter.

Alina, I don't think "hip" was the word back then. It was (at least here in Southern California) more "RAD!" like Antrese mentioned. "Rad" is short for "radical" which, really makes no sense, but I said it ALL THE TIME back then.

Shannon, I think you are right. I think the hairstyle might have been called "bi-level" and not "tri-level"...there I go forgetting/exaggerating again!! ;0)

Brings back an old memory when hairspray was THE KING of the town and nearly being blinded by the stuff as I walked past a friend's locker. Hair was also so BIG then, how could she have possibly missed!

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